Improved cover for pails, firkins



dni-,ted gta-tw THEoDoRE r. ooNKLrN, or FOND DU LAc, Wisconsin.

.Letters Patent N0.104,933, und myX5, 1 870.

IMPRO-VED COVER FOR PAILS, FIRKINSj &C.

TheSchedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making par? of thesame.

sels adapted to its use; and I do hereby declare that 'diet'ollowing isa full and exact description of the same.

Figure 1 is n. general View of cover, (on pail.)

Figure 2, top view of leg or pin B, and mode of applying the rim of pailor iirkin b b.

Figure 3, sectional view of groove C and co asadjusted and fastened bylug upon pail c c.

Figure 4, View of slot or break D in bottom of cover l al, by which(on-turning cover horizontally) the lug or piu vB enters the groove incover.

Figure 5, outside view of bail-ear E, (on section of pail 0,) and by thebending over of the velongated top of such bail-enr the lug or pin B isformed.

'The nature of my invention consists of :t flat cover, turned to t thetop of the pail, f rkin, or other vessel, so that the outside rim willbe flush with the outside of said 'ftop ofv pail, 85o., and with ashoulder or bevel tting in and sinking inside the seid top of pail,

ver a,

65o., for, sary, one-quarter of z'tn' inch. In the upper corner of thisshoulder or bevel -is run (around the cover) :t 'shallow groove, withnarrow breaks or slots ou each opposite sides thereof'. f

The cover thus formed isadjn'sted, 'fastened on, or

removed from thev pail or vessel by tivo lugs or pins on the inside of-the top of' said pnil or vessel, made by v inserting wire lugs'xor pinson each opposite side of sa-idnside top of pail, &c., or, as shown bythe drawing and herewith presented, by elongating and bendin in seidpail-top the metallic ears of said pail or vessel to form such lugs orpins, and the saune to pass through the aforesaid slots or breaks, and tand run smoothly in the aforesaid groove in the cover.

What I claim as my improvement in covers for pails, tirk'ins, &c., is

In the construction .cf the close-fitting cover A,

with projecting edge-groove C and slots D and d, in combination withleur E, with its lugs B and pail H,

lall arranged as shown and described.

THEODORE F, CONKLIN.

Witnesses:

WM. D. OOXKLIX, J R. TALLMADGE.

